The Materiais Diversos Festival promotes the meeting of different audiences and imaginaries around the arts (dance, theatre, music and performance) with thought, questioning actuality and fostering cultural participation as a condition for citizenship. Born in Minde, in 2009, it spread to Alcanena and Cartaxo (in 2013) and became one of the most representative projects for programming outside the large centres in Portugal, attempting to think and act from the places it originates. It had been occurring annually until 2017 and became a biannual event starting with its 10th edition in 2019.
From the 5th to the 15th of October 2023, the Festival Materiais Diversos will be in Alcanena and Minde with a program of dance, theater and music shows, installations and conversations. Slowing down and making people, places and processes visible are the mottos of the 12th edition of the festival.
Bojana Kunst is a theorist of performance, theatre and contemporary dance — with a special focus on the late 20th and 21st centuries — dramaturge and teacher. She is a professor at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, where she heads the international master’s program in Choreography and Performance. She lives between Germany and Slovenia. Her research focuses on the philosophy and theory of performance and dance, the role of the body in performance practice, the relationship between performance and politics and various theoretical and practical aspects of dramaturgy. She is particularly interested in research-oriented alternative and experimental theatrical formats, collaborative and dramaturgical processes in self-organised forms of performance and dance creation. It approaches performance and dance practice as a field of knowledge that can contribute to the way we think, write and produce theory.
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